Gingrich dice que paga en impuestos una tasa del 31%

ABC News:

Newt Gingrich said today that he paid a 31 percent tax rate in 2010 and plans to release his tax returns for 2010 Thursday, followed by the 2011 documents.

“We can confirm that I paid a 31 percent rate, and although let me be clear, the 21st century Contract With America has an optional 15 percent for every American,” Gingrich said at a press availability in South Carolina. “My goal is not to raise Mitt Romney’s taxes. It’s to let everybody pay Mitt Romney’s rate. And so I’m not going to criticize Mitt Romney. I’m going to say, shouldn’t we all have the option of a flat tax at the same rate he was paying.”

Gingrich’s taxes were in line with the total effective federal tax rate, which was 31.2 percent in 2010 for top 1 percent of taxpayers.

The former House speaker said his campaign went through his documents three times to make sure he paid a 31 percent rate, but said he would need to check whether that was only federal or both federal and state taxes.

“We’re pulling together the documents,” he added. “We hope to get it out sometime tomorrow. … And we’ll release 2011 as soon as we put it together.”